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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say represented filth and chaos to the Puritans in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?
(a) The letting of blood.
(b) Eating pork.
(c) Drinking alcohol.
(d) Eating chicken.

2. The colonists considered news distributed by whom to be the least reliable, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) The Indians.
(b) Cambridge newspapers.
(c) The English.
(d) Boston newspapers.

3. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving on November 3 of what year?
(a) 1631.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1647.
(d) 1642.

4. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?
(a) November 14, 1676.
(b) September 12, 1568.
(c) December 10, 1675.
(d) March 29, 1676.

5. A prodigious learner, Hugo Grotius entered the University of Leiden when he was how old?
(a) 16.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

6. Where was John Sassamon born?
(a) Near current Washington, D.C.
(b) Near current Boston, MA.
(c) Near current New York, NY.
(d) Near current Canton, MA.

7. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Voting rights.
(d) Mythology.

8. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) Richard Callicot.

9. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?
(a) 100.
(b) 300.
(c) 56.
(d) 200.

10. What book did William Hubbard write at the order of the Colonial government, which paid him 50 pounds for it?
(a) A History of England.
(b) A History of the Northwest.
(c) An Account of the Great Swamp Battle.
(d) A History of New England.

11. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?
(a) The Mohegan tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Narragansett tribe.
(d) The Nipmuc tribe.

12. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?
(a) "A Brief Account of New England."
(b) "An Account of King Philip's War."
(c) "A History of the Great War."
(d) "True but Brief Account of our Losses."

13. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?
(a) 1610.
(b) 1664.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1622.

14. What word means "shaman" in the language of the Narragansett?
(a) Powwaw.
(b) Wigwam.
(c) Tipi.
(d) Pagoda.

15. What does "bashaba" mean?
(a) Enemy.
(b) White man.
(c) Chief of chiefs.
(d) Child of the shaman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians?

2. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?

3. What is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life and was advanced by several theologians such as Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli?

4. Nathaniel Saltonstall was selected as a judge for what specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials?

5. Passaconaway is a name which translates to what in English?

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